Found in the Hermetikon archive

Angelica

Angelica archangelica

Angelica appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk: moderate
Books: 17
Contexts: 4
Mentions: 45

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: angelica
Latin name: Angelica archangelica(candidate)
Identity note: Angelica may be a literary or personal name in archive hits.

Safety

moderate

Photosensitivity and pregnancy/anticoagulant cautions are relevant for medicinal use.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

EMA HMPC: Photosensitivity and pregnancy/anticoagulant cautions are relevant for medicinal use.

Aliases

angelicaAngelica archangelica

Angelica in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Angelica (Angelica archangelica) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, ritual uses, and astrology. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Medicine

medium

Culpeper classifies angelica as hot and dry, heart-strengthening, digestive, and opposed to poison and pestilence, while also saying it provokes menses and brings away the placenta.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES.

Astrology

medium

Coley's astrological herb list assigns angelica to the Sun alongside marigold, rosemary, celandine, St. John's wort, borage, balm, and camomile.

Clavis Astrologiae Elimata | Henry Coley | 1669

Page 93

Ritual

medium

Burton cites angelica among herbs whose suffitus or fumigation was believed by earlier writers to expel devils when rightly used.

Anatomy of Melancholy | Robert Burton | 1621

Page 985

Preparations and ritual uses

Angelica seed distillation

medium

Hill's anniseed water is distilled from anniseed, angelica seed, spirit, and water.

The Family Herbal | John Hill | 1755

Page 36

Angelica Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Astrology

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Bulfinch's Mythology.

Matched as angelica; medium confidence.

Folk magic

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: History of Witchcraft and Demonology.

Matched as angelica; medium confidence.

Preparation

5 passages across 5 books; strongest source: Bulfinch's Mythology.

Matched as angelica; medium confidence.

Ritual

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.

Matched as angelica; medium confidence.

Angelica Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

5 shown

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"...n oils or salves, it helps sinews that are shrunk; limbs out of joint, all aches and swellings coming of a cold cause. *Angelica.* Is hot and dry in the third degree; opens, digests, makes thin, strengthens the heart, helps fluxes, and loathsomeness of meat. It is an enemy to poison and pestilence, provokes menses, and brings away the placanta. You may take a dram of it at a time in powder. *Anagallis, mas, femina.* Pimpernel, male and female. They are something hot and dry, and of such a drying quality that they draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh, amend..."

HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES.Open in Reader

Preparationalias: angelicamedium confidence

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"...dine="" sul="" one="" gramme="" citric="" acid="" seventy-five="" centigrammes="" hot="" water="" sixty="" fls="" hi="" angelica="" a="" sufficient="" quantitv="" toniake="" thousand="" fls.="" di.ssolve="" the="" quinine="" sulphates="" in="" pour="" solution="" upon="" extract="" contained="" mortar="" or="" other="" suitable="" vessel.="" triturate="" liijuid="" with="" until="" they="" form="" smooth="" mixture="" then="" gradually="" add="" while="" stirring="" eight="" hundred="" fl.s="" afterward="" tincture="" iron.="" transfer="" to="" bottle="" set="" ..."

Page 1185Open in Reader

Preparationalias: angelicamedium confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"...r, drawing off a gallon. - Anniseed water, which is good in the colic, and is made with a pound of anniseed, a pound of angelica seed, and two gallons of spirit, with one gallon of water, distilling off two gallons. No more of these are necessary: but before I close this article of distilling, I shall add the making of lavender water, spirit of lavender, and Hungary water, which are preparations of the same kind, and very easy. Lavender water, is made from a pound of fresh lavender-flowers, and a gallon of molosses spirit, with two quarts of water; five pints ar..."

Page 36Open in Reader

Preparationalias: angelicamedium confidence

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Lewis Spence

1920

"...me and said, * Benvenuto, ask them something/ I answered, * Let them bring me into the company of my Sicilian mistress, Angelica/ That night we obtained no answer of any sort ; but I had received great satisfaction in having my curiosity so far indulged. The necromancer told me, it was requisite wo should go a second time, assuring me, that I should be satisfied in whatever I asked ; but that I must bring with me a pure immaculate boy. •• I took with me a youth who was in my service, of about twelve years of age, together with the same Vincenzio Romoli, who had ..."

Page 128Open in Reader

Archive mentionalias: angelicalow confidence

Bulfinch's Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch

1881

"..., encouraged his men by the most desperate acts of valor, having as an additional incentive to his courage the sight of Angelica, who showed herself upon the city walls. There she witnessed a single combat between the two leaders, Agrican and Sacripant. In this, at length, her defender appeared to be overmatched, when the Circassians broke the ring, and separated the combatants, who were borne asunder in the rush. Sacripant, severely wounded, profited by the confusion, and escaped into Albracca, where he was kindly received and carefully tended by Angelica. The ..."

ADVENTURES OF RINALDO AND ORLANDOOpen in Reader

Astrologyalias: angelicamedium confidence

Books Mentioning Angelica

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

17 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Angelica in Historical Sources

Medicine

Astrology

Ritual

Preparations and ritual uses

Angelica seed distillation

Angelica Archive Contexts

Astrology

Folk magic

Preparation

Ritual

Angelica Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

King's American Dispensatory

The Family Herbal

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Bulfinch's Mythology

Related Archive Material

Related herbs

Books Mentioning Angelica